Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Easter Boil Up

Belizian's call it Boil Up, and it's anything but leftovers. Mix equal parts R&B, calypso, disco, funk, reggae, bruckdown, soul, folk, and whatever else can be found back on the bottom shelf of the musical pantry. Get ready to feast on passport stamped rhythms, second-deck cruise ship melodies, hotel pool calypso, soundtracks to movies not-yet-made, and anything else savory, or unsavory, enough to throw into the pot.

The photo and description is of the what has got to be one of the finest compilations I've heard in a long time, namely Cult Cargo - Belize City Boil Up. Put together by the Numero group - crate-diggers and apparently their 6th album to boot. Their full discography here

Anyway this post was supposted to be about the April Radar and whats been spinning on the hometown hi-fi. So without further ado (and in descending number of rotations we have):Various Cult Cargo Belize City Boil Up (joins the status of those Brazilian comps David Byrne did for Luaka Bop)Aceyalone/RJD2 - Magnificent CityJ Dilla aka Jay Dee - Donuts (great samples and beats)Gotan Project - Lunatico (good quality control from the lounge tango dubmasters)Massive Attack - Collected (a great mix of some of their best tunes) Patrick Forge Presents the Brazilian Funk Experience (killer funk fueled brazilian 45s from the EMI vaults)Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Zulu Rock (as blogged before this is the Ze reissue)Gnarls Barkley - St ElsewhereYeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your BonesPrince - 3121Rian Malan - Alien InboorlingGhostface Killah - FishscaleAnanda Shankar - A Life in Music